Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labour market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labour standards and labour relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labour unions and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labour regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller units of governance, including firms themselves, upward to larger units such as regional federations and international organizations, and outward to non-governmental organizations and civil society. In this volume, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.

Autorentext

Cynthia Estlund is Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

Brian Bercusson, who died in 2008, was Professor of European Social Law at King's College, London

Inhalt

1. Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions
   Cynthia Estlund and Brian Bercusson

2. Corporate Self-Regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour Law
   Harry Arthurs

3. Toward a Democratic Model of Transnational Labour Monitoring?
   Mark Barenberg

4. Timing is Everything: Industrialization, Legal Origin and the Evolution of the Contract of Employment in Britain and Continental Europe
   Simon Deakin

5. Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in an Era of Self-Regulation
   Cynthia Estlund

6. Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privatization: Three Challenges to Labour Rights in our Time
   Katherine V W Stone

7. Law, Norms, and Complex Discrimination
   Susan Sturm

8. The WTO as a Mechanism for Labour Regulation
   Bob Hepple

9. A Changing Institutional Architecture of the European Social Model?
   Brian Bercusson

10. International Regulation of the Global Economy-The Role of Trade Unions
    KD Ewing

11. Alternative Mechanisms of Voice Representation
    Ulrich Mückenberger

12. The Originality of Transnational Social Norms as a Response to Globalisation
    A-M Moreau